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The Essential Short Stories – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This edition includes some of the best short stories of the English novelist and Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Included are:

The Sisters Of Albano
Ferdinando Eboli
The Evil Eye
The Dream
The Mourner
A Tale Of The Passions
The Mortal Immortal
Transformation
The Invisible Girl
Brother and Sister
The Parvenue
The Pole
Euphrasia: A Tale Of Greece
The Elder Son
The Pilgrims
The Swiss Peasant

The Essential Short Stories

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The Essential Short Stories.

ISBN: 9783849694937

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (from Wikipedia):

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

History Of Six Weeks’ Tour – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

History A Of Six Weeks’ Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a sail round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamonix is a travel narrative, that Mary Shelley has published in 1817. It describes two journeys that Shelley undertook with Percy Bysshe Shelley and her stepsister Claire. The first journey led them all across Europe in 1814, the second one to the Lake Geneva two years later.

History Of Six Weeks’ Tour

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History Of Six Weeks’ Tour.

ISBN: 9783849694920

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (from Wikipedia):

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Falkner – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Falkner, published in 1837, is the last novel by Mary Shelley;and as we see from her letter she had been passing through a period of ill-health and depression while writing it, this may account for less spontaneity in the style, which is decidedly more stilted ; but, here again, we feel that we are admitted to some of the circle which Mary had encountered in the stirring times of her life, and there is undoubted imagination with some fine descriptive passages.

The opening chapter introduces a little deserted child in a picturesque Cornish village. Her parents had died there in apartments, one after the other, the husband having married a governess against the wishes of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Lodore – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary in her novel of Lodore, published in 1835, gave a version of the differences between Harriet and Shelley. Though Lord Lodore is more an impersonation of Mary’s idea of Lord Byron than of Shelley, Cornelia Santerre, the heroine, may be partly drawn from Harriet, while Lady Santerre, her match-making mother, is taken from Eliza Westbrook. Lady Santerre, when her daughter is married, still keeps her under her influence. She is described as clever, though uneducated, with all the petty manoeuvring which frequently accompanies this condition. When differences arise between Lodore and his wife the mother, instead of counselling conciliation, advises her daughter to reject her husband’s advances. Under these circumstances estrangements lead to hatred, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Fortunes Of Perkin Warbeck – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In this novel, Mrs. Shelley sets out with the somewhat startling statement of her firm belief that Perkin Warbeck was in reality the lost Duke of York. She is of opinion, that it is impossible for anyone to examine the records in the Tower without arriving at the same conclusion; and sometimes even in the course of the story, we think she overlooks the resemblance of the romance in her eagerness to impress upon the reader her own peculiar view of the historical fact. The various adventures of the unfortunate Perkin, (or the young Prince, as she will have it,) from his escape out of the Tower in childhood to the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Last Man – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This highly imaginative work of Mary Shelley’s twenty-sixth year contains some of the author’s most powerful ideas. The account of the events recorded professes to be found in the cave of the Cumsean Sibyl, near Naples, where they had remained for centuries, outlasting the changes of nature and, when found, being still two hundred and fifty years in advance of the time foretold. The accounts are all written on the sibylline leaves; they are in all languages, ancient and modern; and those concerning this story are in English.

The Last Man

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The Last Man.

ISBN: 9783849694883

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Valperga – The Life And Adventures Of Castruccio, Prince Of Lucca – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Valperga, published in 1823, the year after Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death is a romance of the 14th century in Italy, during the height of the struggle between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, when each state and almost each town was at war with the other ; a condition of things which lends itself to romance. Mary Shelley’s intimate acquaintance with Italy and Italians gives her the necessary knowledge to write on this subject. Her zealous Italian studies came to her aid, and her love of nature give life and vitality to the scene. Valperga, the ancestral castle home of Euthanasia, a Florentine lady of the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Frankenstein – The Modern Prometheus – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction.

Frankenstein, a Swiss student at the university of Ingolstadt, is led by a peculiar enthusiasm to study the structure of the human frame, and to attempt to follow to its recondite sources the stream of animated being.’ In examining the causes of life, he informs us, antithetically, that he had first recourse to death. — … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...